• Michael McDevitt
    APR 01, 2026
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    ‘A long time’ coming: Citywide ban on attic and basement conversions, coach houses ends, with some geographic holdouts

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    Ald. Bennett Lawson (44) is pictured at a City Council meeting on June 12, 2024. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

    Chicago officially launched its citywide accessory dwelling unit (ADU) program Wednesday, undoing a nearly 70-year ban and legalizing new attic and basement conversion units and coach houses in every multi-unit residential zoning district, most business and commercial zones and in all or some of the single-family zones in over two-thirds of the city’s wards.

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